Offered for the second time at the 2007 Annual Meeting, this poster session provides a venue for the newest developing historical research. Though relatively new to the humanities, poster sessions have long been utilized at professional meetings in scientific fields. On sessions with several panel participants, audience interaction is limited to brief discussion periods —usually only a few people are able to ask questions and each presenter may not have time to discuss their research fully. The two-hour poster session addresses this common problem, allowing for considered dialogue and engaging interaction.

The 2007 Program Committee encourages all meeting attendees to visit the poster sessions on display in the Hilton's Grand Ballroom A. The following presenters will be available to discuss their posters between 2:30 and 4:30 P.M. on Saturday, January 6:

165-1. Lawrence Pope, Texas Prison Reform, and the Changing Context of Confinement
Norwood Andrews, University of Texas at Austin

165-2. The Game of Life: Teaching the History of the 1950s through Primary Source Research
Amy Absher, University of Washington

165-3. The Stuff of Memory (and of Forgetting)
Leora Auslander, University of Chicago

165-4. Children under the Microscope: Interrogating Medical Research Using Children in Early Colonial Nigeria, 1900—60
Mary Wren Bivins, State University of New York at Oswego

165-5. Material Cultures of Filth and Cleanliness: The American Bathroom at the Turn of the Last Century
Jeremy Boggs, George Mason University

165-6. Lot Cary, Liberia, and the Politics of Slavery
Eric Burin, University of North Dakota

165-7. Film As Evidence: From the Nuremberg Experience to the Eichmann Trial
Christian Delage, Université Paris 8 and L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

165-8. African American Marriage Formation, 1880 — 2000
Catherine Fitch, University of Minnesota

165-9. Historical Constructions of Contemporary Notions of Identity in Postcolonial Africa: Case Study —The Upper Zambezi Valley
Lawrence Flint, University of Copenhagen

165-10. Hospitality in Southwestern Tanzania, 300 CE — 1900 CE: Gauging Historical Change without Written Documents
Catherine Cymone Fourshey, Susquehanna University

165-11. Doing Business in Unsettled Times: Europe's Insurers and the Fate of Jewish Insurance Policies during World War II
Susan D. Glazer, Brandeis University

165-12. Mapping St. Louis: Urban Policy History with GIS
Colin H. Gordon, University of Iowa

165-13. Privileged Moves: Migration, Race, and Veteran Status in Post-World War II America
Patricia Kelly Hall, University of Minnesota

165-14. "The Necessity for Ruins": Modernity and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century New England Landscapes
Karen Halttunen, University of Southern California

165-15. Object of History: Teaching High School American History with Artifacts
Stephanie Hurter, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
Sharon M. Leon, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

165-16. The Rise of an Industry: Tennessee Marble Comes to the Nation's Capitol
Susan Knowles, Middle Tennessee State University

165-17. Urban Exploration: The Search for Authenticity in a Postmodern Metropolis
Elizabeth R. Lambert, Middle Tennessee State University

165-18. In Search of the American Pimp
Alecia P. Long, Georgia State University

165-19. More than Just a Fireplace: The Hearth, the Kitchen, and Frank Lloyd Wright
Allison O'Connor, George Mason University

165-20. Withdrawn

165-21. "The Growing Economic Independence of Woman": Married Women's Work in the United States, 1875 — 1940
Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota

165-22. "All I ask is a chance to play": Sports and Early Twentieth-Century American Schoolgirl Stories
Nancy G. Rosoff, Rutgers University-Camden

165-23. Who Were the South Carolina Scalawags?
Hyman S. Rubin, Columbia College

165-24. Internationalization — and History — in the Training of K-12 Teachers
Ann Imlah Schneider, independent scholar

165-25. Built to Suit the Sub-Tropical Climate: Selling Radios in the Levant, 1930s—40s
Andrea L. Stanton, Columbia University

165-26. The Concept of "Ancient Imperialism" in the Modern Age of "Globalization"
Dmitriev Sviatoslav, Ball State University

165-27. Civil War and Civil Rights, Gender and Race in South Carolina's Statues and Monuments
Marcia G. Synnott, University of South Carolina

165-28. Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942—64
Steve Velasquez. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

165-29. Unstable Women: Eminent Domain and Womanhood in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Eileen P. Walsh, California State University at Fresno

165-30. Descriptions of Cities within the Texts of the Early Medieval Muslim Writers
Arash Etemad Yousefi, independent scholar

165-31. Constructing Joseph Smith: Documents and Debates
Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University